Quotes of: Spent Keyword

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

Lev Grossman

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Noam Chomsky

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Carre Otis

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Anthony Shadid

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of "Being Gretchen," I didn't really like music, but in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like music, but in fact, I didn't approve of my own ...

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

It was so stupid, and random, but at that second, with the morning sun hitting her auburn hair, and her huge brown eyes fixed on him, the lock flew off the “do-not-allow-yourself-to-even-think-about-it” portion of his brain, and every feeling he ...

Intimate Friends

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

A Crown of Swords

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

The Cracked Mirror: Reflections of an Appalachian Son

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Eclipse

We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.

The Good, Bad and Gold: The Pursuit

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

Beyond The Devil's Teeth

The meaning of our lives is to justify where our bosses spent their budget.

Budget Justified The Waste Fraud and Abuse of Government Workers

The amount of time you spend pondering over your problems, can be best spent resolving them.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Ben Elliot

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

Marketa Irglova

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

Matt Roper